"An outflow of immigrants, or a reduction in the inflow, could actually lessen the recessionary pressures, " writes professor George Borjas, an expert on labor economics at Harvard University, in an e-mail.

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In other words, perhaps Harvard believed a quick, simple and limited e-mail search would nip this problem in the bud and allow the University to confront the alleged source of the leak in the most streamlined way possible.

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